Fight Club had alot of psycholoical and socialogical conjecture, placed in a mentally (and in the movie, visually) appealing manner. Boondock Saints said that men are apathetic. Which they are. Then they made a movie about it. Which was good.

Everyone fucking well did, then most of us got thoroughly sick of it and stopped, and then threatened the rest with bodily harm if they didn't stop too.
Man hearing people flap their jaws about Fightclub got old quickly.

gangs of new york was a great movie, its just that the ending "fight scene" between amsterdam and bill was not at all a fight scene. in any case, bill would have dominated if they got the chance to fight

But iThat wasn't what made it good. The idea was that the world outside their Five Points came back, and it got them. While the War and the riots were occuring, they were fighting for a ghetto.
And during the showdown to decide it all, by their rules, the world came around and destroyed it.